A high-profile Palestinian militant died Tuesday in an Israeli prison after an 87-day hunger strike, spurring the launch of three rockets from Gaza into Israel and threatening to shatter a tense quiet following spiraling violence in the occupied West Bank.
, especially among young West Bank residents disillusioned by the aging and profoundly corrupt leadership of the more mainstream groups and the enduring Israeli occupation.
She said that Itamar Ben Gvir, the minister in charge of Israeli prisons and a far-right settler, was threatening to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners, prompting calls from prisoners for a new mass hunger strike. Jamal Khatib, Adnan’s attorney, told Israel’s Army Radio on Tuesday that Adnan’s family and several human rights organizations had in recent days “warned that he needed to be hospitalized … All the studies into this issue show there is an actual danger of death after 75 days [on a hunger strike].
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